It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.

In 2001 he was awarded the David Watt Prize for "outstanding contributions towards the clarification of political issues and the promotion of their greater understanding" for his investigation into the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Empire in 1915. (.

An Arabic speaker he is one of few Western journalists to have interviewed Osama bin Laden which he did on three occasions between 1993 and 1997. Robert Fisk is an English writer and journalist from Maidstone Kent. Fisk holds more British and International Journalism awards than any other foreign correspondent.